Perry Calls on Obama to Rebuke Holder
Gov. Rick Perry has some unsolicited advice for Barack Obama during the president's visit to Texas on Tuesday: apologize for Attorney General Eric Holder's comments about the state's voter ID law.
“Perhaps while the president is visiting Texas, he can take a break from big-dollar fundraisers to disavow his attorney general's offensive and incendiary comments regarding our common-sense voter identification law," Perry said in a written statement. "Eric Holder purposefully used language designed to inflame passions and incite racial tension. It was not only inappropriate, but simply incorrect on its face."
During his speech to the ...
Comments (22)
Renee E. Babcock via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Yeah, don't hold your breath, Good Hair. Or, on second thought, maybe you should...
Donald Dickson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Seems to me that Mr. Perry's favored candidate has raised more money in Texas than Mr. Obama has. By about four to one.
Wilkins Micawber
Rick Perry reminds me of a petulant juvenile brat: always interrupting the adults to call attention to himself, then never has anything constructive to say. Only Rick Perry could make George W. Bush seem like a model of decorum and civility by comparison...
Can't his momma make him sit down and shut up?
Gilly Harris via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What a jerk and a hypocrite.
Texans Fighting Back via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I doubt he actually knows what the word incendiary means.
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
My Lord, Perry is a dope and a douche.
Mitchell Stewart via Texas Tribune on Facebook
About as common-sense as Jim Crow laws. Sheesh.
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Arrogant bully still runnin for pres. Gotta make sure all his doofus wingnut teabagger cronies don't forget about him. Pandering to the stupid, as usual.
Rudy Gonzales
Tricky Ricky, remember you flamed out over Oopsville trying to think of those three points. Tricky Ricky is so enamored of himself he thinks the world revolves around him. Tricky Ricky should also remember he just barely won the governorship. Tricky Ricky, you are targeted by your own parties fringe for expulsion from politics, especially after your dismal failure on the national scene.
John A Pope Jr via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Visiting Texas is not a good idea, however.
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"big-dollar"? Really?
He couldn't say "high-dollar"?
Or "highfaultin," seein' how he's writing to the President and all as our Governor?
Adele Roberson
http://www.vote-for-democrats.info/vote2012/p01-index.html
VOTE FOR AMERICA 2012
More hate groups in this country than in the last fifty years. The reason is the influx into our lives and government of religious fanatics .. This is a dangerous situation We need to stop this in its tracks or we pay dearly.
Loss all freedoms if we let these crazy people get more of a hold on this country. Democrats have faults , .....but at least they do not try to suppress our lives to the point of insanity.They do not mess in our personal lives
A Bill is being passed around in Congress... under the radar.
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) introduced H.R. 3600, “To restore the Free Speech and First Amendment rights of churches and exempt organizations by repealing the 1954 Johnson Amendment.”
The Johnson amendment, passed by Congress in 1954, is the law that prohibits religions and churches from meddling in our secular government.
The issue, houses of worship cannot both endorse or oppose a particular political candidate and receive a tax exemption from the government.
Republicans are pushing religion down our throats. They hate anything and everything. We should all refrain from voting for Republicans for a few years to see if we can break the backs of all these extremists. Republicans should know that we cannot do this to our country. They know that they to can fall victim to these dark forces.
Maybe a few elections lost to the point of humiliation, will discourage them.
Audrey Fisher via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hey, I went downtown SA today and it was great. TP'er's weren't to bright - they were on the wrong street waving their swastika signs.
Ron Blancarte via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Why should he rebuke Holder? He was speaking the truth.
Rudy Gonzales
I rebuke Rick Perry as he does not represent all Texans, just the elite few. When the leadership, or positioning proposed leadership do not interrupt the booing audience when an American soldier, in theater, in uniform, questions about D.A.D.T. - They do not represent me!
When the leadership, or positioning proposed leadership fail to adequately provide true transparency - They do not represent me!
When the leadership, or positioning proposed leadership force women to undergo medical procedures to enforce their religious beliefs - They do not represent me!
Staying home or not caring about voting is abrogation of your rights. Those rights could be taken away much like the TEA party and others who have already forced women to under go medical procedures just because they can.
It will take everyone in America to stand up to the right-winged Toxic Extremist Arrogance(TEA) who will not compromise, and who have already taken over local and state political and policy making.
Robert Rister via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Holder really rubs me the wrong way. And what the President should do about that is exactly nothing:)
Jim Arnold
Why don't you apologize for being a failed governor.
Linda of Texas LandOwner
That is exactly what the people want Governor Perry to do.
Anya Khan
Audrey, you are a ialr.
Sec Holder is one of the reaons Pres Obama is going to be a one term President
Wilkins Micawber
badda-badda-BING!
Adele Roberson
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/07/18/532051/report-drudge-linked-to-conspiracy-websites-184-times-in-the-last-year/
A ThinkProgress study of the the Drudge Report reveals the popular internet aggregator has linked 184 times to InfoWars and World Net Daily, two sites that promote the internet’s worst conspiracy theories, since June 2011. By directing millions of visitors to these websites, Drudge is providing critical financial and reputational support to publications that argue 9/11 was an inside job, FEMA is building concentration camps and President Obama was not born in the United States.
And from me : Republicans are insane. Even the ones who agree that these idiotic conspiracies
are hurting the Republican Party do not have the courage or the decency
to confront fools like Drudge, World Net and the hasbeen Bauchmann and tell them to please SHUT UP.These lies started way back at the beginning of the current Republican nomination for
President. Bauchman started it and it has spread all over the world. And, of course that coward Romney does not t ry to recind lies at all. These or a lot of others In fact Romney is one of the biggest liars of all. I have come to the definite conclusion that Romney is not an honorable man.
Adele Roberson
I read about seven newspapers online today. Towns all over Texas plus the Houston Chronicle. I swear I could not find one article written about DICK PERRY that put him in a favorable light. Who in the hell voted for that Moron.? I know there is always a very low voter turnout in Texas but this is ridiculous. We have gone about our business and did not realize what was happening to us until it was too late.
Now we are paying for being foolish. It is going to take an act of God to get all those damn religious nuts out of our government. Today I read that Dan Patrick is going to run for Governor when Perry decides again to be President of the United States. If I find out this is true I am planning to kill myself.